The need for lithium is driving a global race for resources ... “We don’t want this mine,” she told me. “To stop Rio Tinto, people thought we were crazy. But somehow, we have continued to fight.” In ...

Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped ... brought up seven people,” Mzukisi ...

A rescue mission is underway for hundreds of illegal miners thought to have been trapped for months in an abandoned shaft in South Africa, according to reports. More than 100 people are believed ...

There’s been a lingering stench in the air in Kings Mountain for weeks now, blamed on Albemarle Corp. as the world’s largest lithium miner removes water from a dormant mine pit. The Charlotte ...

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Senzo Mchunu says they don’t know how many people remain trapped in Stilfontein mine.

Survivors trapped inside ... how some people resorted to the unthinkable ‘out of desperation’ and to stay alive - they turned to cannibalism. An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

JOHANNESBURG — At least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have died of suspected starvation and dehydration after being trapped deep underground for ...

The family-owned business has operated tours at the mine for more than 50 years, with only one previous safety incident in which people were trapped in the elevator in the 1980s, Mikesell said.